In this week’s episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we covered editing Office 365 Group email addresses, deleting your stored data in FindTime, new theme option for SharePoint, and more!

04:44New feature: Edit the email address of an Office 365 Group – Read announcement MC146221
— Previously we weren’t able to change the email address of an Office 365 Group. This caused several problems – one of which being that you cannot remove a custom domain that one of your Office 365 Groups was using.

7:28Users now have the ability to delete their FindTime data – Read announcement MC146273
— In keeping with all the changes allowing you to control your data, Microsoft is providing you a way to delete all of your FindTime data and your account.

10:18New header emphasis options are now available in SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC146274
— As announced in May, you will be able to change the color of your site header – now you only get white – to go with your branding guidelines.

16:08New feature: Save for Later in SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC146317
— Also announced in May, this feature will allow you to save SharePoint news items, just like you can do now in the mobile app.

19:14New feature: Guided workflow for deleting users – Read announcement MC146320
— A short set to help you decommission users in your environment – there are some gaps, but this will help!

29:45 Planned Maintenance for SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC146344
— Be aware that SharePoint and OneDrive for Business could be read-only for between 30 minutes – 4 hours.

I was recently asked how to configure documents that are in a SharePoint document library to open in their native application on the client computer instead of the browser. This question came from a user in SharePoint Online, but the answer is the same for those using SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and 2019.

There is a feature at the site collection level and a setting on every document library that you use to decide how documents get opened. I searched for an official Microsoft document detailing how this can be accomplished, but I could only find a post from 2014 that said it was for Office Web Apps – a product that has been replaced by Office Online Server – and SharePoint 2013.

In this week’s episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover Live Events in Microsoft 365, changes to the Office 365 Group creation process, Microsoft Teams administration, and more!

02:45New feature: Live events in Microsoft 365 – Read announcement MC145792
— New wave of communications that leverages Microsoft Teams, Stream, and Yammer. The next generation of town hall meetings and broadcasts 🙂 Darrell shows a demo of setting up a new live event!

17:19Making some changes to the Office 365 group creation process – Read announcement MC145892
— When creating Office 365 Groups you won’t be able to select if members will receive Group email in their inbox, if external people will be able to email your Group , and you can’t customize the welcome email members receive.

23:56 Streamlining settings in the Teams and Skype for Business admin center – Read announcement MC145946
— You can’t turn off Microsoft Teams tenant-wide – you will have to manage access to Teams per user

In this week’s episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover new audit features in Exchange, adding tagging in Advanced eDiscovery, new insights for anti-phishing, and more!

02:47Updated feature: Audit features in Exchange – Read announcement MC145014
— Logging will be turned on for you and if you want to turn it off, you will need to do so by running Set-OrganizationConfig -AuditDisabled $true

05:47New Feature: Advanced eDiscovery: Search – Read announcement MC145200
— Adding tagging easily so that you can get what you need and not just a huge collection of info you don’t need

In this week’s episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover planned maintenance for Yammer, TLS changes, changes to Shared with me, MAJOR updated to SharePoint and OneDrive forced versioning, and our experience with the OneDrive ‘Known Folder Move’.

05:16Reminder: We are moving to TLS 1.2 for encryption – Read announcement MC144908
— Just a reminder that you need to move to using TLS 1.2 and fix any apps that are still using TLS 1.0 or 1.1. The deadline has been extended until October 21, 2018.

7:45Unexpected file metadata visible in OneDrive for Business ‘Shared with me’ file display – Read announcement MC144929
— This update may not be in your tenant – it is alerting to an issue that has been fixed showing too much metadata to those outside your tenant.

14:38UPDATE: OneDrive and SharePoint Team Site Versioning – Read more on the TechCommunity site
— Microsoft announced in May that they would be forcing users to turn on file versioning and set the minimum level at 100. An updated was posted on July 18, 2018 that they are pausing the implementation of this policy due to customer feedback.

22:38Our experience performing the OneDrive known folder move – See the Twitter Thread
— We discuss some gotchas when going through the process

In this week’s episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover conditional access for Office.com, LinkedIn data being shown inside Outlook for Windows and iOS, enhanced view of files you have shared in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online modern page approvals, and automatically logging people out of SharePoint and OneDrive for Business sessions.

10:44Adding LinkedIn data to the people card in Outlook for iOS and Windows – Read announcement MC144140
— Microsoft is bringing in some information from LinkedIn to further enhance the people cards in Outlook. Can be helpful when on your way to a meeting!

15:19See the file card from Shared by Me and show a weekly trend for daily views and viewers on a file – Read announcement MC144168
— Coming soon we will have statistics on user views of content we have shared in the OneDrive shared by me view. Are those you are collaborating with actually….collaborating? Well here is one way to check and see!

19:54SharePoint Online organizational news: page approval – Read announcement MC144239
— Being able to link a special Microsoft Flow approval to the pages library on a modern ‘Communications’ site so you can allow users to create pages and news!

23:09Idle Session Signout is now available for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business – Read announcement MC144247
— Log out sessions when users are connecting to your Office 365 tenant from a machine that isn’t joined to your domain or an approved device.

24:38Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows – Read more on the TechCommunity site
— Announcing the general availability of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10 – Darrell showed off using it some and talked about how it can be used.

26:25Introducing a free version of Microsoft Teams – Read more on the TechCommunity site
— Organizations with 300 users or less can now sign-up for a free version of Microsoft Teams. This is what some are calling a Slack competitor but with more storage and capabilities.

29:39Microsoft Stream powers live events and brings intelligent video to Microsoft 365 – Read more on the TechCommunity site
— Live event functionality will soon be powered by Microsoft Stream and delivered through Microsoft Teams and Yammer. Some great AI-powered functionality is promised, such as speaker timelines, speech-to-text, and closed captions

During a recent intranet deployment project, a client asked what would happen if she clicked the ‘Accept’ link on the SharePoint access request email she received from one of her coworkers. She was a bit surprised by my answer and after that conversation, I thought it would be good to do a quick video explaining the process.

What permissions do users get if you accept their access request? How are those users managed on the SharePoint site and is there a best practice for managing access requests? Watch the video below to find out!

During a recent episode of the 365 Message Center show, a live viewer (Dean) asked how to restore dismissed messages in the list. Initially I told him it couldn’t be done, but then quickly remembered it could be done. So I promised a quick video to show how to do it.

Check out my quick video below where I show how to easily get dismissed messages back in the ‘active’ view.

In this week’s episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover the Message Center Reader role, changes in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange Web Services. Check out the time stamped links below.

02:49Updated site usage page in SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC143535
— Updates to what usage information we are getting from SharePoint Online. We covered this one pretty well, so check out the video.

10:00Known Folder Move is now available for OneDrive for Business – Read announcement MC143579
— This update is great for helping your users utilize OneDrive – if not forcing them – without their need to start saving in a different place.

14:35Multi-Factor Authentication and self-service password reset preview – Read announcement MC143715
— When users register for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and self-service password reset (SSPR) for their account, the process will be handled in one, single experience. Previously users had to enter this information twice.

34:07Message Center Reader role
— The new Message Center Reader role is a great step in enabling change management and training users in your organization. There are some interesting things they can also see in the Admin Center, so check out the video link for details on what they do get to see.

[UPDATE]
Thank you everyone that attended my session! Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can help in any way.
Here are the links on DAX that I said I would provide:
DAX Basics: DanielGlenn.com/DAXBasics
Video Course: DanielGlenn.com/DAXvideos

This is a fantastic event every year and I am excited to be accepted back to speak. This year I will be speaking on how to gain insights using Power BI. We will walk through the framework of great dashboards and how you should approach management of the Power BI service within your organization. You can see the entire schedule for #SQLSatLouisville here.